On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 14:02:19 +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > >So I think the answer to the question "Why wasn't PL/I used for OS/360?" is >"It didn't exist yet." > One might make a parallel statment about C vis-a-vis UNIX, yet UNIX moved from an initial assembler implementation to C.
I ponder the portability of PL/I programs when I try to imagine the performance of SIGNED BINARY 16 on a 70xx, or of SIGNED BINARY 35 on a S/360. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
